
Jeremie Loncka
Lecturer
Theatre, College of Performing Arts
Email: loncka@chapman.edu
Website: https://www.jeremieloncka.com/
Biography
Jeremie Loncka is a Los Angeles-based actor, director, and teaching artist. A proud
alumnus of Chapman University’s BFA program, he currently serves as Director of Programming
for the award-winning, internationally recognized Actors’ Gang Prison Project, which
he helped establish in 2010.
For the last fifteen years, Jeremie has partnered with the California Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation to develop and expand a theatrical curriculum designed
to offer incarcerated participants acting tools intended to foster self-esteem, empathy,
and nonviolent artistic expression. He currently oversees programming across fourteen
prisons, two reentry centers, and three youth facilities, supporting a teaching team
that includes fifteen formerly incarcerated teaching artists.
As a member of The Actors’ Gang Theatre Company since 2010, Jeremie has toured nationally
and internationally, collaborating with acclaimed directors including Dominique Serrand
and Georges Bigot. His film credits include We Live On, directed by Academy Award winner Tim Robbins, and 45 Seconds of Laughter, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
Recent directing credits include the original works Knock Knock, Two Angels, and (Im)migrants of the State, a devised production created in partnership with thirteen alumni of the Prison Project.